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Hindsight is 20/20. Its easy to say it was a stupid play call after the ball has been picked off, but Lynch has been average at best on short and goal to go all year, and if he gets stuffed thats the last timeout burned or the clock running. I'm not saying it's the perfect call, but it's not ridiculous to ask your QB to try and surprise a defence with a pass and to throw the ball away if nothing is open, stopping the clock, and still giving your running back two chances to pound it in from the 1. (especially in this case with the added threat (excuse the pun) of a QB option.)
I'm not saying it was the perfect play call either, but in my mind it's perfectly logically defensible, in that there is "no" situation where what happened should happen. That ball should have been send straight out the back of the end zone.